Davy Mcaleer
Head Of Code Security Engineering (formerly Lacework) at Fortinet
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavy Mcaleer is a seasoned cloud security and engineering leader with over 20 years of technical experience and more than 15 years in management, currently heading Code Security Engineering for Lacework at Fortinet. He specializes in shifting security and compliance left—building SAST, SCA, IaC and code security platforms that turn massive telemetry into actionable composite alerts and lower noise for customers. Davy has a proven track record running global organizations and delivering complex, cross-site programs in telecoms and enterprise software, blending hands-on platform design with people leadership. He led Belfast engineering teams at Chef to operationalize Policy-as-Code and CI/CD-driven compliance, and earlier roles span product, support, and program leadership for large telco customers. Known for improving processes, frameworks and customer outcomes, he pairs technical depth (MSc Computing & Information Systems) with a pragmatic focus on making security usable at scale. An under-the-radar strength is his long experience reconciling enterprise SLAs and P&L realities with engineering roadmaps to deliver reliable, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Environmental Biology, BSc Environmental Biology at Queen's University BelfastRoyal Belfast Academical InstitutionMSc Computing and Information Systems, MSc Computing and Information Systems at Ulster University
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Github Skills (88)
devsecops10
terraform10
aws-security10
azure-security10
graph10
cloud-security10
aws10
get-started9
hashicorp9
inspec9
testing9
package-management9
security9
terraform-module9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
charles-misbehaving-org/terragoat
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
TerraGoat is Bridgecrew's "Vulnerable by Design" Terraform repository. TerraGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments.
Contributions:14 PRs, 26 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 2 months
chef-base-plans/nginx
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Habitat Package for nginx
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
nginxhabitat
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